Car-fender.



PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

P. J. LEAHY. GAR FENDER. APPLIOATION FILED 1330.14, 1906.

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PETER JOSEPH LEAHY, OF TURGOT, QUEBEC, CANADA.

CAB-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed December 14,1906. Serial No. 347,832.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER Josnrn LEAHY, a subject of the King ofEngland, residing at TLHCOlJ, in the county of Hochelaga, Province ofQuebec, and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain Improvements inCar-Fenders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in car-fendersandconsists in certain new and useful features of construction andoperation, all as hereinafter more fully set forth and specificallypointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a fender of wedge-shape whichmay be depressed into close proximity to, or in actual contact with, atrack rail in case of accidental contact with a foreign body on thetrack.

Referring to the drawings: Figure l is a front elevational view of a'car equipped with my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view, the sectionbeing taken on line 22*of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectionalview showing details of operation not brought out clearly in the otherviews.

Referring to the parts 2 is an ordinary commercially rolled angle whichforms the base member of the wedge-shaped fender or guard, and it willbe noted that said base member is bent into the required form tocomprise not only the base portion of the fender, but is continuous andforms as well the vertical rear portions at the edges of said fender,and is thence bent upwardly and in to form the top flange thereof aswell, so that said fender frame is formed of practically a single anglemember bent into proper form for the purpose.

Connecting the side portions 2, at the rearwardly portion, and passingthrough the vertical flanges of said angle member, are tie-rods, orcrossrods 45 which rest in planes below the top portion 6- of the anglemember referred to.

Connecting these rods -45 with the depending brackets 78 are links 910which are pivoted at one end-the loweron said rods 45 and at their upperends are pivoted on the rods 11-12 which are rockable in the bearings ofthe brackets 78 before referred to, so that said fender is rockable onits supporting rods, and will be deflected downwardly and rearwardly asshown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3 when released, as hereinafterdescribed.

Cooperating with the links, in supporting the fender,

, are the hook-shaped members 13 which are provided with theapproximately horizontal portions 14 and with the hooked ends 15, thehorizontal portions serving as supports, normally, for the rod 5 andthereby supporting the fender in an elevated position as shown in fulllines in Fig. 3.

Rising to a plane higher than the fender is a bufferplate 16 which is,in the drawings, shown rising vertically above the said fender, butwhich may be at any suitable angle which may be required and which issustained at some distance forwardly of the body of a car by means ofthe buffer springs 1'7 in a suitable sheath, as -l7 Extending rearwardlyfrom the buffer-plate is a link -18 which is pivotally connected withthe link 19 which latter is in turn mounted on the rod -20 mounted inthe brackets -21 depending from the body of a car. This link 19 isconnected by a short chain or other suitable means with the hook shapedmembers 13 so that when the buffer 16 is impinged by an obstacle thebuffer will be retracted; the links 18l9 will be forced rearwardly, andthe said chain will draw the hooked memberor membersr-earwardly so as towithdraw the horizontal portion from beneath the rod -5-, whereupon theweight of the fender will carry it downwardly, in which course it willbe carried rearwardly by means of the guiding links 9l0 before referredto.

It will be evident that the parts shown in Fig. 3, except thecross-rods, will be duplicated at each side of the center line of thefender as shown in Fig. 2.

There is a great advantage in having the fender move rearwardly in itsdescent owing to the fact that it will thereby clear itself away from anobstruction which may be on the track, which may otherwise serve toguide the fender upwardly and cause it to be forced under said fenderwhile the car is in motion.

Having described the invention, what I claim as new is:

said buffer.

0. In a wedge shaped fender, a continuous angle member forming the baseand rear edge portions thereof, crossrods connecting the verticalflanges of said angle member, hook-shaped supporting means engaging oneof said crossrods, a retractile buffer and means for releasing saidsupporting means, actuated from the buller to drop said supportingcross-rod into the hooked portion of said supporting means.

4. In a wedge-shaped fender, a continuous angle member forming the base,side edge and upper edge portions thereof, crossr0ds connecting oppositeportions of said angle member, hook-shaped supporting means having anapproximately horizontal portion intermediate their ends and serving assupporting means for one of said cross-rods, a retractile buffer, meansfor holding it normally in a for wardly position, and means connectedwith said buffer for Withdrawing said horizontal portion of thesupporting means from said cross-rod when said buffer is retracted.

5. In a car fender, the combination comprising supportingbrackets, arockable shaft carried by said brackets, a butter-plate, links betweensaid plate and said shaft, a wedge-shaped fender, means for supportingthe said fender in a normally elevated position, and means connectedwith said buffer-plate and said links for withdrawing said supportingmeans when said bufi'er is retracted, thereby permitting downward andrearward movement of said fender. 6. In a device of the characterdescribed, a downwardly and rearwardly movable fender, suspended meansfor supporting said fender, a movable buflfer' plate carried in a planerelatively above said fender and means connecting said buffer plate withthe fender supporting means.

7, The combination comprising a wedge shaped fender having the majorportion of its frame formed of a commercially rolled angle member whichis substantially continuous at the base and rear edges thereof, tie rodstherefor, a hooked supporting means provided with a substantiallyhorizontal portion on which one of said tie rods may rest, a retractilemember in juxtaposition to said fender and means for rocking said hookedmember from said retractile means.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

PETER JOSEPH LEAHY.

Witnesses:

F. H. GIBBS, M. BRANT.

